2010 Caudill Book Award Nominees

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	All the Lovely Bad Ones Mary Downing Hahn
	While spending the summer at their grandmother's Vermont inn, two prankster siblings awaken young ghosts from the inn's distant past who refuse to "rest in peace." (Grades 4-7)

	A Crooked Kind of Perfect Linda Urban
	Ten-year-old Zoe Elias, who longs to play the piano but must resign herself to learning the organ instead, finds that her musicianship has a positive impact on her workaholic mother, her jittery father, and her school social life. (Gr. 4-6)

	Crossing the Wire Will Hobbs
	Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico. (Grades 5-8)

	Dragon Slippers Jessica Day George
	Orphaned after a fever epidemic, Creel befriends a dragon and unknowingly inherits an object that can either save or destroy her kingdom. (Gr. 5-8)

	Elephant Run Roland Smith
	Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941. Nick and his friend Mya, escape on elephants, risking their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a prisoner of war camp. (Gr. 5-7)

	Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree Lauren Tarshis
	A quirky and utterly logical seventh-grade girl named Emma-Jean Lazarus encounters some interesting results when she gets involved in the messy everyday problems of her peers. (Grades 5-7)

	First Light Rebecca Stead
	When twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father's research, he stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life and begins an adventure he never imagines possible. (Gr. 5-8)

	Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott Russell Freedman
	This non-fiction work covers the events surrounding and including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the end of segregation on buses. (Grades 4-6)

	Home of the Brave Katherine Applegate
	Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom. He longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner. (Grades 5-7)

	Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life Wendy Mass
	Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless locked box--set aside by his father before his death five years earlier--that purportedly contains the meaning of life. (Grades 5-7)

	Kimchi & Calamari Rose Kent
	Adopted from Korea by Italian parents, fourteen-year-old Joseph Calderaro begins to make important self-discoveries about race and family after his social studies teacher assigns an essay on cultural heritage and tracing the past. (Grades 4-7)

	Mozart Question Michael Morpurgo
	A young journalist goes to Venice, Italy, to interview a famous violinist, who tells the story of his parents' incarceration by the Nazis, and explains why they can no longer listen to the music of Mozart. (Grades 4-6)

	Naked Mole-Rat Letters Mary Amato
	When her father begins a long-distance romance with a Washington, D.C. zookeeper, twelve-year-old Frankie sends fabricated email letters to the zookeeper in an attempt to end the relationship. (Grades 5-7)

	Shark Girl Kelly L. Bingham
	After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future. (Grades 6-10)

	Shooting the Moon Frances O'Roark Dowell
	When her brother is sent to fight in Vietnam, twelve-year-old Jamie begins to reconsider the army world that she has grown up in. (Grades 5-8)

	Small White Scar K.A. Nuzum
	Fifteen-year-old Will Bennon leaves his family and begins life as a cowboy, but his mentally challenged twin brother follows him and joins the journey. (Grades 6-9)

	Someone Named Eva Joan M. Wolf
	In 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken from her home with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as "proper Germans" for adoption by German families, but all the while she remembers her true name and history. (Grades 5-8)

	Thing About Georgie Lisa Graff
	Georgie's dwarfism causes problems, but he could always rely on his parents, his best friend, and classmate Jeanie the Meanie's teasing, until a surprising announcement, a new boy in school, and a class project shake things up. (Grades 3-6)

	Wednesday Wars Gary D. Schmidt
	In 1967, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in. (Grades 5-8)

	White Giraffe Lauren St. John
	After a fire kills her parents, eleven-year-old Martine must leave England to live with her grandmother on a wildlife game reserve in South Africa, where she befriends a mythical white giraffe. (Grades 4-7)

Previous Caudill Award Nominees

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2003

2009 Caudill Award Nominees
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Alabama Moon Watt Key	The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick -
Black Duck Janet Taylor Lisle	Letters from Wolfie Patti Sherlock
Black Storm Comin' by Diane Lee Wilson	Life as We Knew It Susan Beth Pfeffer
Blood on the River: James Town 1607 Elisa Carbone	The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters Lesley M.M. Blume	Oh, Rats!: The Story of Rats and People Albert Marrin
A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama Laura Amy Schlitz	Penny from Heaven Jennifer L. Holm
Gossamer Lois Lowry	Project Mulberry Linda Sue Park
The Green Glass Sea Ellen Klages	Rules Cynthia Lord
Hattie Big Sky Kirby Larson	shug Jenny Han
Heat Mike Lupica	Wolf Brother Michelle Paver

2008 Caudill Award Nominees
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Adam Canfield of the Slash Michael Winerip	MVP*: Magellan Voyage Project Douglas Evans
Chicken Boy Frances O'Roark Dowell	The Old Willis Place: a Ghost Story Mary Downing Hahn
Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War II Joseph Bruchac	The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy Jeanne Birdsall
Crooked River Shelley Pearsall	Princess Academy Shannon Hale
Defiance Valerie Hobbs	Ruins of Gorlan John Flanagan
Drums, Birls, and Dangerous Pie Jordan Sonnenblick 2008 Winner!!	Shakespeare's Secret Elise Broach
East Edith Pattou	Schwa was Here Neal Shusterman
Listening for Lions Gloria Whelan	Thunder from the Sea Joan Hiatt Harlow
Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Kate DiCamillo	Worth A. LaFaye
The Misadventures of Maude March, or, Trouble Rides a Fast Horse Audrey Couloumbis	Yankee Girl Mary Ann Rodman

2007 Caudill Award Nominees
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Airborn Kenneth Oppel	Locomotion Jacqueline Woodson
Becoming Naomi León Pam Muñoz Ryan	Once Upon a Marigold Jean Ferris
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett	Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
Each Little Bird that Sings by Deborah Wiles	Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins	The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer
Hachiko Waits by Lesléa Newman	Secrets of a Civil War War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley by Sally M. Walker
Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine	Shackleton's Stowaway by Victoria McKernan
Heartbeat by Sharon Creech	So B. It by Sarah Weeks by 2007 Winner!!
Ida B: and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan	Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
Last Shot by John Feinstein	Thin Wood Walls by David Patneaude

2006 Caudill Award Nominees
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2005 Caudill Award Nominees
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Ashes of Roses Mary Jane Auch	Hoot Carl Hiassen 2005 Winner!
Stand Tall Joan Bauer	Kite Rider Geraldine McCaughrean
Runt Marion Dane Bauer	When My Name Was Keoko Linda Sue Park
Ruby Holler Sharon Creech	Trouble Don't Last Shelly Pearsall
Under the Same Sky Cynthia DeFelice	Straw into Gold Gary Schmidt
The Shrouding Woman Loretta Ellsworth	Doing Time Online Jan Siebold
Overboard Elizabeth Fama	Surviving the Applewhites Stephanie Tolan
House of the Scorpion Nancy Farmer	Heir Apparent Vivian Vande Velde
Phineas Gage John Fleischman	Surviving Hitler Andrea Warren
Pictures of Hollis Woods Patricia Reilly Giff	Memory Boy Will Weaver

2004 Caudill Award Nominees
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Ghost Soldier Elaine Marie Alphin	Hidden Talents David Lubar
Storm Warriors Elisa Carbone	Legend of Lady Ilena Patricia Malone
Things Not Seen Andrew Clements	Belle Teal Ann M. Martin
Love That Dog Sharon Creech	Touching Spirit Bear Ben Mikaelson
Dovey Coe Francis O'Roark Dowell	Fair Weather Richard Peck
The Breadwinner Deborah Ellis	Foster's War Carolyn Reeder
Wild Man Island Will Hobbs	Esperanza Rising Pam Munoz Ryan
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler	Zach's Lie Roland Smith
Stormbreaker Anthony Horowitz 2004 WINNER!	Flipped Wendelin Van Draanen
No More Dead Dogs Gordan Korman	Love, Ruby Lavender Deborah Wiles

2003 Caudill Award Nominees
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Fever 1793 Laurie Halse Anderson 2003 Winner!	The Wreckers Iain Lawrence
Hope Was Here Joan Bauer	The Art of Keeping Cool Janet Lisle Taylor
Williwaw! Tom Bodett	Gathering Blue Lois Lowry
Through My Eyes Ruby Bridges	The Squire's Tale Gerald Morris
Crossing Jordan Adrian Fogelin	The Graduation of Jake Moon Barbara Park
Nory Ryan's Song Patricia Reilly Giff	A Year Down Yonder Richard Peck
Jackie and Me Dan Gutman	I Was a Rat! Phillip Pullman
Year of Miss Agnes Kirkpatrick Hill	Walking to the Bus Rider Blues Harriet Gillem Robinet
Jason's Gold Will Hobbs	Stargirl Jerry Spinelli
Dancing in Cadillac Light Kimberly Willis Holt	Homeless Bird Gloria Whelan

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